Dr. Ayesha Khanna is Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions firm and incubator. She has been a strategic advisor on artificial intelligence, smart cities and fintech to leading corporations and governments. Ayesha also serves on the Board of Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Singapore government's agency that develops its world-class technology sector to drive the country's digital economy and power its Smart Nation vision.

In 2017, ADDO AI was featured in Forbes magazine as one of four leading artificial intelligence companies in Asia and Ayesha was named one of South East Asia's groundbreaking female entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine in 2018. Her clients have included SMRT, Singapore's largest public transport company; Singtel, Singapore's largest telco; SOMPO, Japan's largest insurance firm; Habib Bank, Pakistan's largest bank; and Smart Dubai, the government agency tasked to transform Dubai into a leading smart city.

Ayesha is also the Founder of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding and artificial intelligence classes to girls in Singapore, and founded the Empower: AI for Singapore national movement, which aims to teach all youth in the country the basics of artificial intelligence.

Prior to founding ADDO AI, Ayesha spent more than a decade on Wall Street developing large scale trading, risk management and data analytics systems. Ayesha was co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group established to analyze the social and economic impact of accelerating technologies. She directed the Future Cities Group at the London School of Economics, and has been a Faculty Advisor at Singularity University.

Ayesha has been named one of Singapore's leading female entrepreneurs and a leading Asian fintech influencer by Fintech Asia. She also served on the Singapore Ministry of Education’s Steering Committee on future skills and applied learning for emerging industries. Ayesha has been recently profiled for her work in artificial intelligence in leading publications including Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), Focus Magazin (Germany), Corriere della Sera (Italy), Dagens Næringsliv (Norway), Lëtzebuerger Journal (Luxembourg), Computer Sweden (Sweden), Information Age (Nordics), Peak (Cover Story, Singapore), and In The Black (Cover Story, Australia).

Ayesha is author of Straight Through Processing (2008) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). She has been published and quoted on technology, innovation and smart cities in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, TIME, Newsweek, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Strategy+Business, and Foreign Policy. She has presented at major financial, technology and other industry conferences, provided high level government briefings, chaired symposiums such as AI Asia, and spoken at TEDx events.

She is an advisor to the startups Octa (a chatbot for young travellers) and Arro (a delivery robot for sports).

Ayesha has a BA (honors) in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University and a PhD in Information Systems and Innovation from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Ayesha Khanna was featured as one of 15 women in Singapore who are making an impact in their industry and society. in 2019. The profile was a month long exhibition in National Library Board's public libraries (this one is from Esplanade Library).

Thanks to Women in Asia, SMU and Shirin Fozdar Programme for highlighting Dr. Khanna’s work in artificial intelligence and passion for empowering girls by teaching them coding.

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How can the solutions in the field of artificial intelligence help small and medium-sized enterprises from countries such as Poland or other countries in the Central Europe region? What to do to not be behind the digital revolution that changes the face of business? We talk with Ayesha Khanna, the head of Addo.AI.

- With the help of data and artificial intelligence, you can immediately optimize your business. This means that you can automate customer service, production processes. And small and medium-sized businesses are always keen to reduce costs, "says Ayesha Khanna, who is now helping build the future economy in Singapore.

Ayesha Khanna, CEO of Addo AI, has a message for everyone: we need to start the journey in the AI "today"

The idea that artificial intelligence is a separate area reserved for programmers and experts is outdated and should be left out. The approach everyone should take, from now on, is to engage with a technology that will change everyone's life. This was advocated by Ayesha Khanna, CEO of Addo AI and one of the most prominent women in the artificial intelligence sector in Asia, during her keynote at the Vodafone Business Conference - The Way of the Future.

When Dr Ayesha Khanna talks about artificial intelligence, she does not start with technology.“That’s the wrong way to start,” says Khanna, co-founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions firm and incubator.

“Women continue to be underrepresented in both the financial services and tech industries. It is no wonder that female leadership in Fintech, a field at the intersection of both industries, remains wanting. Diversity is a cornerstone of successful organisations especially in these day and age where businesses are globalised, and gender diversity is undoubtedly an important aspect of it.

LATTICE80 in collaboration with Miss Kaya presents the 2019 complete list of top 100 Women in Fintech you need to know and follow around the world.

Volunteering at a kids' hackathon at a community centre here six years ago, Dr Ayesha Khanna was given a visceral reminder of a deep-seated bias when it comes to women and tech.

"I was working with kids on a small electric robot and, at some point, the mother of one girl took her daughter away and replaced her with her son, saying he was better suited to the activity," said the co-founder and chief executive of artificial-intelligence (AI) firm Addo AI….

This year, we celebrate International Women’s day with a series of eight interviews that feature inspiring women who represent the modern empowered woman. In Part Two of the series, we speak to Dr Ayesha Khanna, Carolyn Kan, Jocelyn Chng and Yvon Bock.

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Wonderful to speak about artificial intelligence for smart cities with a focus on human-centred design and AI governance. Thanks Property Council of Australia for inviting me to lovely Hamilton Island 🌴. #artificialintelligence @propertycouncil

Wonderful to speak about artificial intelligence for smart cities with a focus on human-centred design and AI governance. Thanks Property Council of Australia for inviting me to lovely Hamilton Island 🌴. #artificialintelligence @propertycouncil

Always fun to do a live interview with great hosts! Thanks Howie and Bernard for inviting me to MONEY FM 89.3, Singapore’s premier business radio station, and for the questions on artificial intelligence and how we can empower ourselves by upskilling.
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Many thanks to BP for inviting me to speak on how artificial intelligence can enhance and enrich customer journeys. Our AI engines help organisations become more customer-centric and seamlessly join offline and online experiences. #artificialintelligence #customerjourneys

Really honoured to be featured as one of 15 women in Singapore who are making an impact in their industry and society. The profile is a month long exhibition in National Library Board's public libraries (this one is from Esplanade Library). .
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Many thanks to Women in Asia, SMU and Shirin Fozdar Programme for highlighting my work in artificial intelligence and passion for empowering girls by teaching them coding.
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Really enjoyed speaking at International Built Environment Week on how to use artificial intelligence to build smart cities that are underpinned by public-private ecosystems and human-centric design.
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Many thanks to Prudential for inviting me to speak in Sydney on how organisations can personalise and improve customer journeys with artificial intelligence. #customerjourneys #ai #artificialintelligence

It was great chatting with the wonderful Miriam Meckel, Handelsblatt Media Group, on how to empower cities and citizens with artificial intelligence. #artificialintelligence #smartcities @mmeckel